This is another poorly orchestrated Scifi movie like Paycheck

Rating: 5/10 (10 July 2005)

I am a big fan of all Michael Bay's movies, especially Bad Boys I & II, The Rock, Armageddon and Pearl Harbor... His action is always amazing and stunting. I wish to say the same about Micheal Bay's latest action flick, The Island, but it was more of a disappointment.
The action was as usual brilliantly coordinated, especially the fast car chase and the crashes. Even though it lasted for only 15 minutes, it is totally worth the $10. Apart from that, the movie was moving at a slow, very slow pace. Especially the first 30 minutes to the movie, some of the scenes should have been deleted.
Thank God there is Steve Buscemi who brings comic relief to the movie. Every phrase that comes out from his mouth is utterly funny!
Since this is a futuristic Sci-Fi movies, I was expecting to see some cool high tech gadgets here but all I see is heavily advertised promotion from Microsoft such as NBC, XBox, MSN search... What was the message that Michael Bay or the producer trying to portrait to the audiences? Microsoft owns the future? Aren't there already own most of everything in our present time?
Lastly, I can't help but notice the style of the movie resembles a very similar genre to another poorly orchestrated Scifi movie - Paycheck.
If you like Paycheck which was done in such sloppy manner, you probably would like The Island.